Jihadi coup: How the Islamic state crippled al-Qaeda

The Guardian ^ | 10 June 2015 | Shiv Malik, Ali Younes, Spencer Ackerman and Mustafa Khalili

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..the man US terrorism analysts call “the most influential living jihadi theorist” has turned his ire toward Isis – and emerged, in the last year, as one of the group’s most powerful critics. Soon after the Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the establishment of a caliphate last June, Maqdisi released a long tract castigating Isis as ignorant and misguided, accusing them of subverting the “Islamic project” that he has long nurtured.

Maqdisi’s war of words with Isis is emblematic of the new fratricidal split within violent Islamic radicalism – but it is also a sign that al-Qaida, once the world’s most feared terrorist network, knows it has been surpassed.

Isis has not simply eclipsed al-Qaida on the battlefields of Syria and Iraq, and in the competition for funding and new recruits. According to a series of exclusive interviews with senior jihadi ideologues, Isis has successfully launched “a coup” against al-Qaida to destroy it from within. As a consequence, they now admit, al-Qaida – as an idea and an organisation – is now on the verge of collapse...

Al-Qaida has long maintained that while the establishment of the caliphate is the ultimate goal, conditions are not yet right: ordinary Muslims need to be educated about “true Islam” for many more years before it can return. But it has now been a year since Baghdadi declared his own caliphate – and the longer that Isis can hold its territory and broadcast its military successes to the world, the more credibility it will steal from al-Qaida.

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This is normal -- bloodthirty Moslem groups are replaced by even more bloodthirsty Moslem groups until they get hit hard by non-Moslems --> this happened in Spain where the bloodthirsty Ummayads were replaced by the Almohads and they in turn by the Almoravids

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I didnt now that. I bet most people don’t. that is interesting. but like Obama said lets not get on our high horse because of the Crusades. Or the Inquisition. Or something.

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I mixed them up -- first the Almoravids and then the Al Mohads

Islam just gets nastier and nastier. It's a virulent civilisational virus -- look at the great civilisations of Egypt, Syria, etc. that it infected.